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[Numbchux]

I don't think a story can do justice to what I did to my car last weekend, but it'll be a week and a half or so until I can get the video up, so I'll just post a pic or 2 of the aftermath...

[iluvdrt]

OOO, I have been there plebty of times, water and mud up past the doors, LOL.

[soobmater]

holy spit, that thing is super dirty, that will be fun cleaning it

[MorganM]

Clean it? I can still see red dirt from Gilbert; he aint cleaning it!

Wipe off the stereo and call it good

[VaporTrail]

looks like he gave a death squeeze to a constipated bird

[Numbchux]

Clean it? I can still see red dirt from Gilbert; he aint cleaning it!

Wipe off the stereo and call it good

I wish it were that simple....

and that's from gilbert...we went back

looks like he gave a death squeeze to a constipated bird

:lol:

[A DOG]

looks like he gave a death squeeze to a constipated bird

Too funny. Seriously how did that happen?

[MorganM]

Too funny. Seriously how did that happen?

Note the lack of boot around the shifter.

I have the main boot on but not boot for the 4WD shifter and get some splatter up in the cabin often. Usually up my right arm too LOL

[A DOG]

Note the lack of boot around the shifter.

I have the main boot on but not boot for the 4WD shifter and get some splatter up in the cabin often. Usually up my right arm too LOL

Gnarly. I try not to hit a mud pit too hard so that it doesnt shoot mud into my engine bay. I actually have yet to get mud in my engine (knock on wood). I have gotten plenty of water in my engine from really deep water crossings.

[Numbchux]

yea, there's no boot around the shifter, nothing at all, just a big hole, and shift linkage. I can see the driveshaft spinning.....

and it wasn't cause I hit the puddle hard....

[subyrally]

yea, there's no boot around the shifter, nothing at all, just a big hole, and shift linkage. I can see the driveshaft spinning.....

and it wasn't cause I hit the puddle hard....

hmmm, dont drop anytihng i guess.

[Numbchux]

OK, here's another pic...

[espey_16]

Try wheeling without doors and your rims flipped inside out:brow:

[Numbchux]

Try wheeling without doors and your rims flipped inside out:brow:

woa, holy crap, that's crazy.

Well, the pics/video will be in next week for sure, but here's the deal. there are 3 main puddles, 1 called the 'truck mud run':



and a couple smallers...I went through the smallest one at the crawl 4 the cure earlier this summer:



so I went back through it last weekend, and it was quite a bit smaller and shallower, so I figured, having watched a jeep go through the truck mud run, and look close (I might have been able to do it...), I though, well, I just go across the end, not even through the middle....Well, it had gotten dug up, and turned out to be a healthy 2 feet, probably closer to 3 in the middle.

all the pics I posted earlier in this post, as well as these two, were taken the next day (a healthy 24 hrs of sitting, plus quite a bit of scooping with my little shovel)...but you get the idea:





and yes, that's the water line on the back seat, it didn't get quite that high in the front as the water didn't really start coming in until the front wheels started coming up the bank on the other side. it took 4 ATV's with winches to pull me out.

I felt the need to tell everyone, because with all the talk about snorkels recently, is that I wanted to prove that you're intake is not your biggest problem. my car died instantly when water literally flooded my disty, the crank angle sensor completely caked with mud....stock intake: DRY, judging from the amount of white smoke that came out of the exhaust the first time I started it, some got in the exhaust, but the smoke has stopped, when I get the seats and carpet back in (if I do put the carpet in, might do some bedliner action...) we'll see how she runs.

[Shadyirishmen]

MORE PICTURES.... Must know what happened.

[soobmater]

wow dude, that sucks, bedlinering your floor would be sick. by the looks of all the candy rappers, it looks like you had a snack

[Numbchux]

MORE PICTURES.... Must know what happened.

I will when I get it, unfortunately the camera was out of battery when it happened, but my buddy was standing on the shore (I think an accurate term) with the DV camera. unfortunately I won't be getting ahold of if until the weekend, at which point, there will be pictures, and probably video!

[archemitis]

only a subaru guy can say he was pulled out by 4 atvs

that big one is HUGE, note the no swimming sign

[MorganM]

Yep, mud sucks!

Least you were at Gilbert last weekend having fun!

[Numbchux]

Yep, mud sucks!

nope...this was just a good excuse to add bedliner instead of carpet, and rubber plugged drain holes under the seats!

I'll get through that puddle yet!

[archemitis]

and there was that sucker with the spfi conversion saying his spfi crapped out. by the looks of that water line, your computer was wet. subarus kick some serious rump roast.

[mudduck]

nope...this was just a good excuse to add bedliner instead of carpet, and rubber plugged drain holes under the seats!

I'll get through that puddle yet!

Best thing you could do if your going to be playing in water. Carpet gets real funky after it gets wet.

[Numbchux]

Sorry for the delay, the idiot that has the camera didn't come up when he said he would, so I had him email it to me...anyway, I edited the sound out (the guy taping had a few inappropriate things to say), and replaced it with a little music.

anyway, here it is...enjoy

http://www.ultimates...&cat=500&page=1

[A DOG]

That was a good splash. Bannana for chuxwagon. I love the ATV train to pull you out.

[MorganM]

Choo Choo; ATV train hauling a subaru coming through

Yep; nothing like a big splash of muddy water up into the air filter to liven up the day. Looked like it was pretty wet!